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Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow says that Donald Trump will not be allowed to addressed Parliament. He said the House of Commons was opposed to “racism and to sexism and our support for equality before the law and an independent judiciary” and that Trump had not earned the right.

This should not surprise you. this is a classic Kock Brothers and Sarah Palin move. They are all under the same organization and belief system. they are very dangerous. they control almost all media and are controlled by the Russian mafia. They wil have full control of the military soon and then Trump will not be able to be impeached, or taken out of power. They are the key figures in everything from child pornography rings to blackmailing huge corporations. Their core beliefs are closley aligned with Nazi-Hitler policies.

Republicans are more afraid of primary challenges than general election voters right now.

So where is Congress now? What are they waiting for? The simple answer — that Congress is run by Republicans, and they won’t impeach a fellow Republican — has some truth to it but isn’t complete. The key thing to remember is that members of Congress want to keep their jobs and have multiple constituencies to keep happy.

There is not a single GOP member of Congress who is worth anything. They swear allegiance to Grover Norquist and the Constitution but they consider the Constitution to be optional. Only the second amendment matters to them. They grovel at the feet of the Koch brothers and ignore the needs of their constituents. Useless, the lot of them.Beaglemom

So you basically contact their offices and let staff know if they cross you, like voting for Betsy DeVos, then whoever their opponent is in the primary, they'll get your vote plus you will donate money to their campaign.

Politicians need to learn to fear the voter, not the GOP, NRA, Koch brothers or whoever.

But to put teeth into the threat, we need to VOTE in 2018 and show them that these aren't empty threats but that we have the power to follow through and make them reality.

That means getting out the vote even more so than the last election. Yes, MORE than the presidential ballot.

It’s easy to miss amid Donald Trump’s frenetic pace of activity and nonstop media coverage, but the most important story in American politics right now isn’t about what Trump is doing: It’s that the opposition is working.

The millions of people who marched in Washington and other cities around the world on inauguration weekend and then demonstrated again at airports the following weekend are making a concrete difference in the world. So are the tens of thousands who’ve called members of Congress or showed up in person at their events.

Trump is getting things done, but all presidents do that. Look at what he’s not getting done. A Republican-controlled Congress bowed to public outrage over an attempt to water down an ethics office. Trump dramatically downscaled his own executive order barring entry to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries. He’s having unprecedented difficulty getting his Cabinet nominees confirmed, even though the Senate’s rules have changed to make confirmations easier than ever. Conservatives in Congress have put their big plans to privatize Medicare and public lands on hold. And the drive to repeal the Affordable Care Act is running into very big trouble.

None of this is based on the discipline and self-restraint on the part of the White House. It’s thanks to bold acts of resistance. The result is lives have been saved, many more lives have been demonstrably improved, and the proven template for future success has been created.

Not only have the resisters already markedly altered the trajectory of public policy, they have also begun to make a difference in each other’s lives and their own conceptions of themselves. And this is the greatest threat to the Trump movement.

In the two weeks that President Donald Trump has been in office, various government agencies and offices have quietly made changes under his watch. Just last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture deleted thousands of public records from its website that were related to animal abuse.

According to Motherboard the scope of the scrub included reports associated with both the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and the Horse Protection Act (HPA), and the files reported on the database are most often used by animal rights groups to ensure the laws are properly enforced.

Similarly, as Motherboard notes, the information is also used by researchers and anyone seeking public information about businesses working with animals. John Goodwin who heads the Humane Society’s Stop Puppy Mills campaign said, “Fundamentally, all this does is serve the purposes of people who have animal welfare violations, got caught, and don’t want the general public to know.”

I swear that Trump diverts every day or two to another idiotic subject so that it will garner mass attention. All the while he is more than likely doing horrid deeds behind the walls of his meetings with 'whichever' creep he has serving with him!

He needs to be brought down soon and impeached. He's already done things that warrant the 'dictator' be taken down!

Get your shit together United States Congressmen and women! You Republicans are going to lose your next election if you put yourselves up for reelection.

Trump is mentally incompetent and emotionally unstable! Plus, he is eager to start WWIII!Get him the fuck out of office.

President Donald Trump on Monday accused the media of refusing to cover terror attacks. “Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland as they did on 9/11, as they did from Boston to Orlando to San Bernardino, and all across Europe,” Trump said during an address at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. “It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported. And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it. They have their reasons, and you understand that.” Trump did not get specific about which terrorist activities were ignored by journalists. This was reported by Daily Beast today at McDill AFB. So he is telling the military that the media is not reporting terror attacks. Trying to divide our country by misinformation and lies.

Ever since the election, Trump has been whining about not being treated like a legitimate president. Of course, that’s because Trump lashes out at anyone who criticizes him like a petulant child who isn’t getting his way. It’s also because Russia helped him win the election and because he has done nothing but hurt people across the nation and all around the world with his policies.

For instance, Trump’s assault on Obamacare threatens the healthcare of 30 million Americans, including veterans.

Well, one veteran had a message for Trump in an amazing ad released on Monday.

As a bearded man lifts weights, the camera pulls away to reveal that he only has one leg. He lost the other leg fighting for our country.

“President Trump, I hear you watch the morning shows,” he began. “Here’s what I do every morning.”

He then tells Trump that if he wants to be considered a legitimate president he should act like one by not killing Obamacare and banning Muslims from entering the nation.

“Look, you lost the popular vote. You’re having trouble drawing a crowd. And your approval rating keeps sinking. But kicking thousands of my fellow veterans off the health insurance by killing the Affordable Care Act and banning Muslims won’t help. That’s not the America I sacrificed myself for. You wanna be a legitimate president, sir? Then act like one.”

After president-with a little pee- Trump and Pence get to the bottom of those 3million fraudulent votes (which by the way, Mitchie McConnell says he ain't gonna pay for!) they can finally settle that age old question asked on playgrounds for decades: Can Batman really beat Superman in a fight?

Kellyanne Lied When She Said She Said She ‘Misspoke’ About Bowling Green Massacre; Here’s Proof

...Except, this isn’t the first time she talked about the Bowling Green massacre and she had even elaborated on it in an interview with, of all sources, Cosmopolitan.

(I)n an interview with Cosmopolitan.com conducted by phone days earlier, on Sunday, Jan. 29, Conway used the same phrasing, claiming that President Barack Obama called for a temporary “ban on Iraqi refugees” after the “Bowling Green massacre.” (The quotes did not appear in either of two stories recently published on Cosmopolitan.com.)

“He did, it’s a fact,” she said of Obama. “Why did he do that? He did that for exactly the same reasons. He did that because two Iraqi nationals came to this country, joined ISIS, traveled back to the Middle East to get trained and refine their terrorism skills, and come back here, and were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre of taking innocent soldiers’ lives away.”

Trump’s accusation is irresponsible and plain untrue and he is doing it as a way to gain support for his unconstitutional Muslim ban.

Earlier in his remarks, Trump once again spewed delusions about the election, bragging about how the numbers prove that everyone likes him even though he lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes to Hillary Clinton.

“We had a wonderful election, didn’t we?” Trump began. “And I saw those numbers — and you like me and I like you.”

Here’s that video via Twitter.

...It’s time for the press to start punishing Trump. Media networks should no longer allow Trump surrogates to appear on television because it is clear that they are not telling the truth and are only there to spread misinformation and propaganda.

CNN recently refused to have Kellyanne Conway on their programming because she has zero credibility. Every single network should follow their lead.

The accusation that the press intentionally covers up terrorist attacks is outrageous and should draw a sharp rebuke and condemnation from media networks all over the world. Donald Trump is literally saying that Europe is plagued by terrorist attacks. It’s the same thing as Kellyanne Conway citing a non-existent terrorist attack in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Trump and Conway are making shit up to defend the administration’s bigoted agenda and they cannot be allowed to get away with it.

...Trump wants to govern through a culture of fear. Trump want to instill a fear of terrorism and immigrants with the intention of driving the American people to support him. Donald Trump apparently yearns to be the Bush administration immediately after 9/11. Trump’s authoritarian playbook wants to keep people frightened.

He provided no evidence for his claim because the claim itself was an emotional tactic that was intended to scare people. Fear not fact is the primary motivation of the Trump administration.

...But why would Trump choose to place this much power in the hands of Steve Bannon? It turns out it wasn’t a choice. The New York Times reports that Trump is signing executive orders without bothering to find out what is in them, and that it was not until after he had signed it that Trump realized one of his numerous executive orders had made Bannon one of the most powerful men in the country:

...Yes, you read that correctly: our President cares so little about doing his job properly that he doesn’t even bother to find out the details of the executive orders he is signing — even if he is granting an insane amount of power to someone who should not be taken seriously when offering his opinion on ice cream flavors.

Bannon’s influence has steadily grown as Trump’s time in office has passed, to the point that it is not unreasonable to call him — not Trump — “President.” While this is a popular turn of events among white supremacists, a group that was courted heavily by Bannon’s propaganda outlet, the rest of the country is steadily growing weary of dealing with someone like Bannon — who has described himself as a “Leninist” who wants to “destroy the state” — having any power at all.

In a blistering statement before the House of Commons, Speaker John Bercow said he was “strongly opposed” to Trump addressing Parliament during an upcoming state visit to the U.K.

“I would not wish to issue an invitation to President Trump to speak in the Royal Gallery,” Bercow said.

While British lawmakers value their country’s relationship with the United States, he said, “I feel very strongly that our opposition to racism and to sexism and our support for equality before the law and an independent judiciary are hugely important considerations in the House of Commons.”

Trump is being stood up to in many areas of the World which is amazing to watch.

America and Americans need to block, obstruct and scrutinized every step the asshole takes....he is not to be trusted, is mentally off, is a liar, fraud and cheat, sexualized women, loves their pussies (said so himself!), has had multiple marriages and affairs and is a fucking asshole!

Donald Trump is not someone that can be looked up to with respect. He's not respectful to others and is nothing more than a dirty dog in every pore of his obese, white flabby body! He's repulsive in every way the word can be attached to him!

Impeachment is what needs to occur - much sooner rather than later. The United States Congress needs to stop backing him as it is going to create their demise in the next election cycle (should they run again).

Start with Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Get her butt out of office - she provides nothing for Alaska and never has! She's McConnell's puppet - he might as well have a leash around her neck!

Republicans want Trump to use executive powers to privatize national monuments

With three weeks left in his term, President Barack Obama designated two more national monuments using the Antiquities Act of 1906. This drove Republicans mad because they want that sweet money you get when you sell off public lands to corporate interests.

Republicans broke the Senate and now they're mad Democrats are playing by the new rules

Republicans have spent years obstructing and opposing and being the party of no as then-President Obama and congressional Democrats tried to get the nation out of economic crisis and implement a generally popular agenda. But now that Democrats are an opposition ready to fight Republican efforts to strip tens of millions of people of health coverage and install a Cabinet of ethically compromised billionaires, suddenly it’s shocking that we can’t all just get along. Politico offers up the shocking details:

Everything good that millions of us fought so hard for and finally achieved when the Federal Communications Commission voted for an open internet is now coming to a screeching halt under popular vote loser Donald Trump and his new FCC lackey chairman, Ajit Pai.

You hit the nail right on the head, Gryphen... and any thinking, sentient being in this country called this ages ago. Drumpf is not a sane man. It's as simple as that. He is in denial of reality. Pretty soon, he'll get to the point of violence over it.

Can't wait for the elction fraud investigation. There are too many facts out of the bag about Crosscheck and voter suppression to not become the bigger issue.http://www.inquisitr.com/3728001/election-results-2016-voter-suppression-concerns-congressional-dems/Also, Google Greg Pallast whose article is brilliant and chilling as to the way Trump "won".

...Tapper then noted Trump’s Monday morning tweet where the president insisted, “Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.”

“Let me read one part of that again,” Tapper said, “Any negative polls are fake news, you got that? So any polling suggesting anything negative about the president or his policies is not, in his view, real.”

“Alright, to sum up: If a judge rules against the president, he’s a so-called judge,” Tapper continued. “If a poll shows that majority of you disagree with his policies, the poll is fake. If a well-sourced news story reflects something unflattering about him, that story is fake.”

“So the judicial branch of government and the free press—two fundamental pillars of our democracy—if we take actions he does not like, we are not legitimate,” Tapper said.

“Okay what about a known geopolitical foe of the United States, like say, I don’t know, Russian President Vladimir Putin,” Tapper asked, before turning his attention to Trump’s Sunday interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly.

Apparently approval ratings were what was on Trump's mind just at the end of the Super Bowl last evening. Not the overtime, not the Patriots' comeback, not the half-time entertainment. Approval ratings. The subject was most likely on his mind before and during the game too. I think Donald Trump is totally unhinged and the GOP had better do something soon before Trump's pal in Moscow decides to take advantage of the situation and cause all sorts of mayhem in former Soviet lands in the coming days and weeks.

It's tough job, being president, and Trump is clearly not up to it. President Obama made it look easy but we also know how hard he worked to attend to the needs of all the people, both here and abroad. It aged him mightily over the years and, as a nation, we owe President and Mrs. Obama an enormous debt of gratitude.Beaglemom

Major American companies are increasingly willing to take on the new president publicly — despite the risk of a backlash.

...The resistance to President Donald Trump’s agenda is spreading fast across corporate America.

Technology giants like Google and Facebook are leading the movement. But more traditional American brands like Budweiser, Coca-Cola and 84 Lumber used the Super Bowl, watched by more than 100 million people, to brand themselves in sharp contrast to Trump’s nationalist agenda on immigration and trade.

An early calculus is developing around American board rooms from Silicon Valley to the heartland to New York: While taking on Trump risks sparking anger from an irascible and highly voluble president, staying quiet and potentially alienating customers and employees could be much worse in the long run.

Duck boot purveyor L.L. Bean — where Donald Trump encouraged his supporters to shop in response to boycotts targeting a pro-Trump Bean family member — is now quietly pushing back against the president's travel ban.

In an internal memo sent to employees on Feb. 2 and obtained by POLITICO, L.L. Bean CEO Stephen Smith offered support to employees who may be affected by Trump's executive order blocking entry to the U.S. for visa holders from seven majority-Muslim countries.

Smith acknowledged the family-owned company’s recent public relations headaches, both as the target of the anti-Trump boycott and the beneficiary of the divisive president's support on Twitter.

“While we have gone to great pains over the past few weeks to distance ourselves from an unfortunate and unwanted political situation, there have been some more recent developments that have prompted me to share some thoughts and direction,” Smith wrote in the internal email. “Recent national policy changes, while dominating the headlines and sparking a wide-range of opinion, are also creating confusion and concern within our family of great employees."

“We are committed to help our affected employees in any way possible,” Smith wrote in the internal email, urging anyone “personally grappling” with the implications of the ban to reach out to him directly. The ban was lifted Feb. 3 by a federal judge in Seattle.

So now in order to justify his botched MooseLamb ban, trump is saying it is all the media’s fault because they hide terrorist attacks from the public on purpose.

A PBS reporter asked the WH to clarify exactly which terrorist attack they didn’t report-WH hasn’t responded. Probable scrambling to make another one up, since Bowling Green didn’t fool anyone.

When are the men in the white coats going to pay him a visit and perform some extreme vetting of his mental state.=============================Trump just accused the “dishonest press” of intentionally covering up terrorist attacks

“Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland, as they did on 9/11, as they did from Boston to Orlando to San Bernardino and all across Europe. You’ve seen what happened in Paris and Nice. All over Europe. It’s happening. It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported, and in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it. They have their reasons, and you understand that.”

O/t, wtfda, seastead. There are beginning studies about microfibers that come off in laundry of jackets,... that marine animals are getting into their bodies and then the population are eating them. What will or is happening to people who eat lots of fish.

Gosh why aren’t these countries on the ban list? In fact none of these “terrorist” attacks happened in the countries included in the MooseLamb ban, except Libya.=======================================

White House offers list of terrorist attacks the press took lightly

The White House released on Monday a list of 78 terrorist attacks that the Trump administration claim were not sufficiently covered by the nation's press. The list, however, included some mass killings that were covered well enough to make their locales into symbols of anger and grief: Orlando, San Bernardino, the Boston Marathon, Nice and Paris in France, and Brussels in Belgium.

... The list of incidents from September 2014 to December 2016 references "targets" and "attackers" for each incident in question, and lists casualties. In several instances, the word "attacker" is misspelled as "attaker" or "attakers."

A number of the incidents on the list are said to have had no casualties...

Some of the events listed may or may not have specific connections to terrorism....

Others don't meet customary definitions of terrorism......

Oddly, the list includes no attacks in Israel, despite a spate of knife attacks in 2015-16 that were meant to terrorize the population. It also doesn’t include the mass shooting of African American churchgoers by Dylann Roof, an avowed white supremacist, at a Charleston church in June 2015.

The con ways would know a terrorist attack, because they are behind them. Yep. Red Scare worked years ago but falls short today. The children from this bunch of criminals should be removed from the influence of liars.

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